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🗓️ 29 October 2024
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You go anywhere in public, and kids are on their screens. How can we teach our kids to be more disciplined? David Murrow talks with Jim Daly about growing up in a household where the tv was constantly on. Plus, John and Danny give a practical tip for parents to help your children not use screens so much.
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0:00.0 | Everywhere you look kids are glued to a screen. What can you do about that? I'm |
0:08.5 | John Fuller joined by Dr. Danny where to who's in charge of our parenting team |
0:12.1 | and Danny there's so many negative effects it seems, for kids who are on screens too much. |
0:19.6 | And I don't know what too much is, but it seems like for most kids it's too much. What do you think? Yeah, I mean it reminds me of a moment I just |
0:27.3 | had John I was hiking and I'm just standing there. This is in beautiful outdoors Colorado. |
0:34.8 | Shining Butte is what it was called. |
0:36.7 | I was looking at Pike's Peak and just having a great moment. |
0:39.4 | I don't know where a bug just comes straight into there, totally unexpected. |
0:48.0 | Kids run into things on the screens |
0:50.5 | that are completely unexpected. |
0:52.6 | And it hits them out of nowhere. |
0:55.0 | Parents, same thing. |
0:56.8 | You don't expect something to happen with your kids |
0:59.3 | and out of nowhere. |
1:00.1 | All of a sudden, there's pornography, |
1:01.5 | there are other things happening so there are those |
1:03.6 | unexpected things that can come but there are things over time that are eroded in kids and that is |
1:10.5 | the ability to maintain conversation, the ability to stay in and power through |
1:17.7 | maybe a boring conversation and asking questions and trying to maintain it. |
1:23.0 | I think kids have lost the art of asking questions of others and being curious about them |
1:28.0 | because everything's given to them on the screen. |
1:31.0 | And the other one is managing conflict and managing boredom. |
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